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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 15A — Interstate Transportation of Petroleum Products

§ 715b. Interstate transportation of contraband oil forbidden

Statutory text

The shipment or transportation in interstate commerce from any State of contraband oil produced in such State is prohibited. For the purposes of this section contraband oil shall not be deemed to have been produced in a State if none of the petroleum constituting such contraband oil, or from which it was produced or derived, was produced, transported, or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amounts permitted to be produced, transported, or withdrawn from storage under the laws of such State or under any regulation or order prescribed thereunder by any board, commission, officer, or other duly authorized agency of such State.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 74–18 § 3 · 49 Stat. 30

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 715b

    (Feb. 22, 1935, ch. 18, § 3, 49 Stat. 31.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 22, 1935, ch. 18, § 3, 49 Stat. 31.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. The shipment or transportation in interstate commerce Interstate commerce in contraband oil prohibited. from any State of contraband oil produced in such State is hereby prohibited. For the purposes of this section contraband oil shall not be deemed to have been produced in a State if none of the petroleum constituting such contraband oil, or from which it was produced or derived, was produced, transported, or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amounts permitted to be produced, transported, or withdrawn from storage under the laws of such State or under any regulation or order prescribed thereunder by any board, commission, officer, or other duly authorized agency of such State.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 22, 1935, ch. 18, § 3, 49 Stat. 31.)

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